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    18
    Feb
    2013
    5:29am, EST

    Libyans put aside woes to celebrate uneasy anniversary

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    Thousands of Libyans celebrate the second anniversary of the Libyan uprising at Martyrs' Square in Tripoli on Feb. 17, 2013.

    Reuters reports — Thousands took to the streets on Sunday to celebrate two years since the start of Libya's revolution and a national political leader promised to end the sense of neglect experienced by Benghazi, the country's second city.

    Mohammad Hannon / AP

    Libyans release lanterns into the air at Nasr Square during the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in Benghazi on Feb 17.

    One thousand kilometers east of the capital Tripoli, Benghazi was the cradle of the revolt that ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi, but many citizens feel that they are yet to see the fruits of their military struggle.

    "I'm not here to celebrate; a revolution should be celebrated once its goals are fulfilled. In Benghazi we keep bringing up demands and nothing happens," Mohammed al-Shokri, 26, said. Read the full story.

    Slideshow: Conflict in Libya

    Goran Tomasevic / REUTERS

    An uprising in Libya ousts dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

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    This story was originally published on Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:51 PM EST

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    ""I'm not here to celebrate; a revolution should be celebrated once its goals are fulfilled. In Benghazi we keep bringing up demands and nothing happens," Mohammed al-Shokri, 26, said." Benghazi was the starting point of Arab Spring/revolution in Libya leading to removal of Gadhafi. Once Gadhafi was …

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  • 18
    Sep
    2012
    5:18pm, EDT

    At site of deadly attack on US consulate, condolence notes from Libyans

    Asmaa Waguih / Reuters

    Slideshow: Anger over film spreads throughout Muslim world

    Akhtar Soomro / Reuters

    Protests ignited by a controversial film that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad spread throughout Muslim world.

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    A Libyan government militia guarding the main entrance of the U.S. consulate that was attacked last week, fixes a note written by Libyans against the attack, in Benghazi city on Sept. 18. An amateur video appears to show Libyans trying to rescue U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens from a room filled with smoke at the U.S. mission where he was found unconscious after last week's attack by a mob protesting against a film that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad. The poster on left reads, "No to extremism, no to terrorism in free Libya".

    -- Reuters

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    • Protesters torch KFC, Hardee's in Lebanon's Tripoli
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    • Aftermath of a deadly day at US consulate in Libya

    At the consulate where four Americans died security consisted of one U.S. regional security officer and a local militia. Ambassador Chris Stevens often had little personal security detail. NBC's Lisa Myers reports.

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    2 comments

    Sadly NM Lady the sanctions are not having an effect as the leaders allow their people to remain in stone age levels, they should be thrown out but this has been through history as the most volitile region on the planet.

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  • 12
    Sep
    2012
    1:18pm, EDT

    Aftermath of a deadly day at US consulate in Libya

    Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters

    People stand near a burnt car at the U.S. consulate, which was attacked and set on fire by gunmen yesterday, in Benghazi on Sept. 12. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three embassy staff were killed as they rushed away from the consulate building, stormed by al Qaeda-linked gunmen blaming America for a film that they said insulted the Prophet Mohammad. Stevens was trying to leave the consulate building for a safer location as part of an evacuation when gunmen launched an intense attack, apparently forcing security personnel to withdraw.

    Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters

    An interior view of the U.S. consulate, which was attacked and set on fire by gunmen yesterday, in Benghazi on Sept. 12.

    Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters

    An exterior view of the U.S. consulate, which was attacked and set on fire by gunmen yesterday, in Benghazi on Sept. 12.

    Esam Omran Al-fetori / Reuters

    An interior view of the damage at the U.S. consulate, which was attacked and set on fire by gunmen yesterday, in Benghazi on Sept. 12.

    Ben Curtis / AP

    U.S. envoy Chris Stevens attends meetings at the Tibesty Hotel where an African Union delegation was meeting with opposition leaders in Benghazi, Libya. Libyan officials say the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans have been killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

    NBC News and wire reports -- The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed after protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Mohammad stormed the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.

    President Barack Obama said in Washington that the U.S. condemned Tuesday's attack in the "strongest possible terms" and would work with the Libyan authorities to bring the killers to justice.

    "Make no mistake. Justice will be done," he said.

    Christopher Stevens was the first U.S. ambassador to be killed during an assignment since Adolph Dubs was slain in an exchange of gunfire during a kidnapping attempt in Afghanistan in 1979.

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    U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement in response to the attack at the U.S. Consulate in Libya as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks on Sept. 12 at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC.

    Slideshow: U.S. posts attacked in Libya and Egypt

    The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed after protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad stormed the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.

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    Chickens are coming home to roost. A religion that promotes hatred, violence, bigotry, sexual slavery, domination of other cultures, peoples, and countries in the name of their prophet, God or whatever else is nothing more than a Devil's workshop.

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  • 11
    Jul
    2012
    6:32pm, EDT

    Libyan refugees wait for safe return to Tawargha

    A displaced Libyan Tawargha woman cries during an interview in a refugee camp at the outskirts of Benghazi on March 7, 2012.

    By Manu Brabo, Associated Press

    Outside Libya’s second largest city of Benghazi lies a camp of refugees. Some 40,000 ethnic Tawargha Africans were expelled from their homes in Tawergha, just south of Misrata, for allegedly collaborating in the killing and raping of Misratans and for helping Gadhafi's forces impose a tight siege on the city during the Libyan revolution. Some in the camp were responsible for the allegations, and some were not. Read more about Tawargha here

    Photos were shot by Associated Press photographer Manu Brabo in March, but made available to msnbc.com on Wednesday.

    A displaced Libyan Tawargha woman walks through a refugee camp in the outskirts of Benghazi on March 7, 2012.

    Displaced Libyan Tawargha men pray at a mosque in a refugee camp at the outskirts of Benghazi, Libya on March 7, 2012.

    A displaced Libyan Tawargha tobacco store owner works in a refugee camp at the outskirts of Benghazi on March 7, 2012.

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    This will be us shortly after Romney gets elected. Homeless or Hobo camps will be renamed refugee camps as more and more people lose their jobs and homes. The new poor will become serf to the 1%.

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  • 5
    Mar
    2012
    4:29pm, EST

    Thousands at funeral after bodies unearthed in Libyan mass grave

    Manu Brabo / AP

    Libyan men carry coffins of victims, discovered in a mass grave, at a funeral in Benghazi, Libya on Monday. Thousands of mourners gathered Monday in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi to bury 155 bodies unearthed from a mass grave of people were killed during last year's civil war. It was the largest grave yet to be discovered from the conflict that began as a popular uprising and ended with the capture and killing of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi last October.

    Manu Brabo / AP

    A woman holding a picture of a missing relative cries during a funeral in Benghazi.

    Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters

    Men pray around the coffins of dead rebel soldiers in Benghazi on Monday. The bodies of around 160 rebel soldiers were found in a mass grave in Bin Jawad, the site of fierce battles during last year's uprising.

    Manu Brabo / AP

    Libyan men bury bodies, discovered in a mass grave, at a funeral in Benghazi.

    Manu Brabo / AP

    A Libyan man prays for a relative, one of many discovered in a mass grave, at a funeral in Benghazi.

    Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters

    A child points at pictures of people killed during last year's uprising.

    AP reports that thousands of mourners attended the burial in Benghazi of the bodies found in the mass grave:

    Forensic specialists with the government say most appear to have died from gunshot wounds and rocket strikes starting in March. Some were executed, while others were severely disfigured from rocket attacks, they said.

    Benghazi resident Maher al-Maghrabi said the body of his 23 year-old brother, who was a rebel fighter, was among those found in the mass grave.

    He expressed anger at Libya's new leaders for taking nearly three months to excavate the bodies from the mass grave, which was first discovered in December. The Ministry of Martyrs, Wounded and Missing Persons began digging up the bodies on Friday.

    "They knew about this grave, and they should have worked quicker to excavate the bodies," he said. "This is unacceptable."

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  • 10
    Sep
    2011
    8:03pm, EDT

    Asmaa Waguih / Reuters

    A woman looks at pictures of anti-Gadhafi fighters, killed during the current revolution, hanging on the wall of a court house in Liberation square in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 10.

    Portraits of a revolution hang in Benghazi's Liberation Square

    View more images from Libya's revolution here.

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  • 26
    Aug
    2011
    12:01pm, EDT

    Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters

    A boy looks at photos of Libya's civil war stuck on the hood of a car in Tahrir Square in Benghazi, Libya, on August 25.

    Car plastered in photographs tells a story of the Libyan war

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    In the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, a young boy reads the story of the Libyan uprising. Not in a history book - though the victors in this war are probably already writing those - but in pictures, scores of them, blanketing the hood of a car. It is a vivid illustration of the pride felt by many thousands of Libyans who have taken part in the revolution.

    For the past six months, myself and my fellow photo editors at msnbc.com have been compiling our own visual story of the Libyan war, collected in a slideshow that documents the conflict month by month, week by week, and day by day. We hope that it tells a more balanced story than the one on the car in Benghazi, though the difficulties professional photographers have faced in securing access to Gadhafi's soldiers mean that their story remains largely untold.

    Click here to look back at the first days of the uprising, or here to see the most recent images in our slideshow.

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  • 23
    Aug
    2011
    11:58pm, EDT

    Alexandre Meneghini / AP

    Salem Hasam Ali, 62, a shop owner, cries while singing Libya's pre-Gadhafi national anthem in the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, late Tuesday, Aug. 23.

    Libyan man overcome with emotion while singing national anthem

    Full story and Slideshow.

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    Osama + Gadhfi in one presidential term = priceless

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  • 22
    Aug
    2011
    4:30pm, EDT

    Calm in Benghazi contrasts turmoil in Tripoli

    By Rich Shulman

    Alexandre Meneghini's eerie image of an empty playground makes me wonder how the children of Benghazi will remember this day.

    Full story.

    Slideshow.

    Alexandre Meneghini / AP

    An empty playground is seen at the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Monday, Aug. 22. World leaders said Monday the end is near for Moammar Gadhafi's regime and began looking at Libya's future without the man who has held power there for 42 years.

    Alexandre Meneghini / AP

    Razain Rayen, 2, right, plays with her twin sister Sofia Rayenat, at the seaside of the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Monday, Aug. 22.

    Esam Omran Al-fetori / Reuters

    Libyan children sit on a tank while waving Kingdom of Libya flags near the court house in Benghazi August 22.

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  • 21
    Aug
    2011
    8:23pm, EDT

    Libyans celebrate arrest of Gadhafi's son, rebels' arrival in Tripoli

    Gianluigi Guercia / AFP - Getty Images

    A Libyan man holds a flair on top of a building in Freedom Square as thousands of Libyans celebrate the arrest of Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam and the partial fall of Tripoli into the hands of Libyan rebels on Aug. 21, in Benghazi, Libya.

    Gianluigi Guercia / AFP - Getty Images

    Thousands of Libyans celebrate the arrest of Kadhafi's son, Seif al-Islam, and the partial fall of Tripoli into the hands of Libyan rebels on Aug. 21, in Benghazi, Libya. Libyan rebels have reached the highly symbolic Green Square in the center of Tripoli, Sky News said early on Aug. 22, showing scenes of jubilant crowds gathered there. Young men, many waving the red, black and green flag of anti-regime forces, were shouting and dancing in obvious joy, shouting Allahu Akbar (God is greatest) and some firing rifles into the air. As many of the men flashed V-for-victory signs and shouted "tell Moamer (Kadhafi) and his sons that Libya has men," a Sky correspondent said people were lighting fires with posters of the Libyan strongman and the solid green flag of the regime that they had torn down.

     

    Read the full story here and check out more image from the rebel uprising and Gadhafi's life.

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  • 20
    Jul
    2011
    12:53pm, EDT

    Gianluigi Guercia / AFP - Getty Images

    Relatives and fellow fighters mourn as they carry the coffin of one of eight Libyan rebel fighters killed the day before during the battle for the control of the oil rich town of Brega at the main cemetery in the Libyan rebels stronghold city of Benghazi on Wednesday.

    Libyan troops kill 8 rebels near eastern oil town

    Full story here.

    Related content:

    • Libya coverage on msnbc
    • Slideshow: Conflict in Libya

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  • 28
    May
    2011
    3:29pm, EDT

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    A child looks out the window of the Azzurra passenger ferry during a trip from Misrata to Benghazi, Libya, Saturday, May 28. Civilians are now able to take the commercial ferry from the once besieged city of Misrata to the de facto rebel capital of Benghazi in east Libya. Fighting on their home turf, Misrata's rebels overcame the heavier firepower of Moammar Gadhafi's forces in punishing street battles that expelled them from the western Libyan city.

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    Men gather outside the casino converted into a makeshift mosque on the Azzurra passenger ferry during a trip from Misrata to Benghazi, Libya, Saturday, May 28.

    Civilians now able to cross from Misrata to Benghazi on passenger ferry

    Read more on the situation in Libya here.

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    A casino, converted into a mosque, eh? I thought I had seen some pretty ingenious conversions of businesses into churches here in the States. I believe this one beats them all.

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